By Jop Timmers Jop Timmers (Design for Good) verifies the certified compostability of Lovechock’s packaging. The celluloid based foil that is certified home compostable is tested in his back yard in Amsterdam. The celluloid based foil is made by Innovia Films. The following weeks we will see if and how the foil degrades… Read more about setting up a home […]
![joptimmers lovechock composteren_1 Design for Good tests the certified home biodegradability of Lovechock foils](https://designforgood.eu/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/joptimmers-lovechock-composteren_1.jpg)
Category: materials
By Jop Timmers Sometimes you need to see something twice before you really see it. This happened to me when I was in my favourite concept store Friday Next, in Amsterdam the other day. At first I saw a nice little cupboard by Breg Hansen, it had nice wooden planks with a rather specific type of wood print. […]
![Newspaperwood Wood made out of newspapers](https://designforgood.eu/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/KrantHout_1.jpg)
Category: materials
By Jop Timmers As housing is one of the most important necessities and still unavailabe for many, Jovoto, a website for mass collaboration wrote out a contest to come up with innovative designs to build houses that cost under $300 and can be built in a sustainable way. The contest is sponsored by Ingersoll Rand. Out of many […]
![$300 dollar housing contest](https://designforgood.eu/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/sustainable-housing-innovations1.jpg)
Category: sustainable innovation
By Jop Timmers 5 June 2011 200 Dutch innovative Professional Passionates with 100 electric cars demonstrating tomorrow’s world of transport. Together we try to speed up the tipping point of electric driving in the Netherlands. Design for Good supports the use of electric vehicles because it is a great sustainable alternative to burning oil based fuels. The Professional Passionates […]
![Electric Rally Logo_1 Electric Rally Logo](https://designforgood.eu/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Electric-Rally-Logo_1.jpg)
Category: miscellaneous